A former township supervisor was killed in a tractor accident on Tuesday evening.State police said 71-year-old Anders Johnson was mowing a neighbor's grass on Boggs Hollow Road, near Route 819, when he was fatally injured."The decedent was the operator of a farm tractor that was pulling a brush hog. For an unknown reason, the decedent was separated from the tractor," the Westmoreland County coroner said in a media statement.Neighbors said there are steep hills on the terrain, but it isn't clear what transpired as Johnson was working in the field. Johnson's daughter told Channel 4 Action News her father wasn't using his own tractor at the time. Police at the Kiski Valley station were still investigating.Coroner Ken Bacha returned to the scene Wednesday to investigate. The tractor seat was in pieces. Portions of it had been previously duct taped. Bacha said police investigators took photos of the seat.WTAE photographer Terry Connell was Johnson's neighbor for 25 years and called him an "excellent neighbor.""He'd do anything for you, any time. You didn't even have to ask him," Connell said. "There was a bad snowstorm one winter, and he just came over and plowed my driveway. I didn't even have to ask him to do it.""He was real adamant about work being done correctly in the township. He was always helping people," said township supervisor and friend Ronald Martz. "Love you, Andy. Going to miss you."An autopsy determined Johnson died from the accident and that he did not suffer a medical emergency beforehand.

SALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. —

A former township supervisor was killed in a tractor accident on Tuesday evening.

State police said 71-year-old Anders Johnson was mowing a neighbor's grass on Boggs Hollow Road, near Route 819, when he was fatally injured.

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"The decedent was the operator of a farm tractor that was pulling a brush hog. For an unknown reason, the decedent was separated from the tractor," the Westmoreland County coroner said in a media statement.

Neighbors said there are steep hills on the terrain, but it isn't clear what transpired as Johnson was working in the field. Johnson's daughter told Channel 4 Action News her father wasn't using his own tractor at the time. Police at the Kiski Valley station were still investigating.

Coroner Ken Bacha returned to the scene Wednesday to investigate. The tractor seat was in pieces. Portions of it had been previously duct taped. Bacha said police investigators took photos of the seat.

WTAE photographer Terry Connell was Johnson's neighbor for 25 years and called him an "excellent neighbor."

"He'd do anything for you, any time. You didn't even have to ask him," Connell said. "There was a bad snowstorm one winter, and he just came over and plowed my driveway. I didn't even have to ask him to do it."

"He was real adamant about work being done correctly in the township. He was always helping people," said township supervisor and friend Ronald Martz. "Love you, Andy. Going to miss you."

An autopsy determined Johnson died from the accident and that he did not suffer a medical emergency beforehand.